Login Assistant

Introduction

Login Assistant is a simple and extremely lightweight login/redirection component for Joomla that makes logging in to your site as easy as just following a link, but still secure because both username and password (may be left blank) encoded into this link are also encrypted.

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Login Assistant can login users silently if set so in component options, and both user and password are encoded in a link.

If password was left in blank or silent login was not enabled a user is first redirected to login screen with username and password (optionally) already filled in with the data encrypted in the provided link. He has just to click Login button to be redirected to the specific page of your site (also encoded in the login link).

This extension may be useful for assisted login to view demo pages of your site or a support ticket progress online. Links created by Login Assistant backend utility can be sent as email messages or inserted as a link in an article.

The target page (where the particular user will be redirected to after login) can be defined individually for each link created.

Main features:
- A user does not have to (and actually can not) know his username and password to login to your site
- Both username and password in the link generated are encrypted
- You control how your users login via Login Assistant links, if you block a user in User Manager he will not be able to enter
- Redirect-only function for the links created with no user selected
- Silent (automatic) user login if both username and password are included in a link
- All links generated by the application are saved to a log file

Great Little Extension!!! I created a maintenance site for my clients and I wanted my clients to be able to login and view site maintenance hours user specific.

So I create a new client page and use this little Component to create a custom URL from a menu link with a username and password.

Once i grab the custom URL, I then go to my clients site and create a link called "VIEW MAINTENANCE" once they click it, they are now lead to my site - they input their username and password and BAM! they see their own maintenance page etc...

Perfect solution for my situation.

Thank you very much developer for this free extension!

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Smart Countdown

Free |
Events |
Alex Polonski

3

Score:

100

17 reviews

Smart Countdown 3 is a highly customizable yet easy to setup FX animatied responsive countdown / count up module for Joomla 3.0
Its main feature (and what makes it different from some of the existing countdowns for Joomla!) is that it handles browser suspend/resume events correctly. There is a wide scope of scenarios when browsers stop (pause) the scripts and timers: from putting a desktop in suspend state to switching mobile Safari tabs or even scrolling the screen on iOS devices while the module is displayed on the page. In all cases, after the browser resumes, Smart Countdown 3 calculates the time the scripts were suspended and adjusts the values of its counter automatically (no need to reload the page).
Smart Coundown 3 uses jQuery animation for digits transitions thus providing good cross-browser support.
Smart countdown includes translations for English (backend and frontend), Spanish, German, French, Italian and Russian (frontend only) and is well prepared for multilingual environments. It is aware of singular/plural forms of time unit labels it displays (Years, Months, Weeks, Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds) for the majority of languages, including special cases – French zeros (that are singular) and Russian (third label form for values ending with 2 to 4 but not with 11 to 14), and can be extended with user-defined “plural suffices” methods for the languages that need their specific logic.
Other features:
• Years, months and weeks can be displayed in counter intervals, along with traditional days, hours, minutes and seconds
• Digits animation - virtually unlimited number of effects and styles using basic animation profiles (included) and installable profiles add-ons
• More than one countdown on the same page with individual settings
• Support for events import plugins
• AJAX used for event queries, Smart Countdown 3 will behave correctly even if its template position is cached on your site
• Various module layouts
• Responsive behavior - the module automatically scales its elements and changes its layout adapting to the template position width
• Independent font sizes for event text, counter digits and time unit labels (“Days”, “Hours”, etc.)
• RTL languages support in all counter layouts
• Custom CSS styles for all counter elements
• Option to display a "Time has arrived!" kind of message on countdown 0
• Automatic redirection (may be disabled in options) to a menu item or an URL on countdown 0 or mouse click

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Smart Countdown Recurring Events

Paid download |
Extensions Specific Non-sorted |
Alex Polonski

3

Score:

97

3 reviews

Smart Countdown Recurring Events adds recurring events support for Smart Countdown 3 module for Joomla. Countdown will automatically switch to the next event in a recurrence series after the current event is over.
Event import plugins make the life of Joomla site administrator easier - there is no need to manually update countdown deadline and event titles for the next event each time when the previous event is in past. Event import plugins generate an events timeline and the main module can then display counter to the closest event and switch to next event even if the page was not refreshed.
A bunch of event import plugins is already available, but all of them require a specific Joomla component or a calendar service (Google Calendar) to be installed and/or configured. Smart Countdown Recurring Events is a stand-alone plugin and doesn't depend on other applications except (naturally) the main Smart Countdown module. Although not having the power of a professional event manager like Google Calendar, Smart Countdown Recurring Events will suit perfectly for simple recurrence scenarios and can be set up and running in minutes.
Requires Smart Countdown 3 or later. Not compatible with Smart Countdown 2.5! For 2.5 version browse project homepage.
Supported recurrence patterns:
- Hourly - event repeats several times during the day at a given interval starting from a given time. Supported intervals: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 hours.
- Daily - event repeats every day on a given time.
- Weekly - event repeats one or more days of a week on a given time. Unchecking all days will disable the pattern, checking all days will have the same effect as daily pattern.
- Monthly - event repeats on the date selected every month on a given time. Feel free to select dates greater than 28. Although not all months will contain the date selected, the date will be implicitly converted to the last day of month in such cases. Selecting "31" as the date for monthly recurrence will result in event repeating on the last day of each month.
- Monthly by week and day - event repeats on a selected day of selected week, e.g. "first monday", "third monday", "last friday" etc. of each month.
- Yearly - event repeats on the date selected on a given time. Date selection already implements basic validation, i.e. you will not be able to select JUNE 31. However FEB 29 is available and will have the following meaning: repeat event every year, for leap years - on FEB 29, for the rest of years - on FEB 28 (selecting FEB 28 will result in a repeat on FEB 28 for all years).
- Custom dates - not an interval-based recurrence. Enter up to 10 event date-and-times and they will be converted into a timeline. The counter will switch to the next event after the current one is in past.
Other features:
Event duration
Two independent configuration for each module instance with an option to merge both recurrence patterns into a single timeline (useful for different weekdays and weekends schedule model)
Supports the recently introduced Smart Countdown - countdown to event end: a countdown to event end time can be displayed while event is in progress.

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Smart Subscriptions

Free |
Membership & Subscriptions |
Alex Polonski

3

Score:

74

6 reviews

Subscriptions and membership management for Joomla 3 sites. Control which ítems (articles, menú ítems, modules, etc.) users can view basing on their active subscriptions. The component requires minimum setup and can be easily deployed on new or existing sites, users registered before the component was installed can be added to Smart Subscriptions scope with one button click. The package includes everything you need to start subscriptions management, more payment methods and other add-ons are available for download.
Main features:
- Free and paid subscriptions
- Subscriptions expiration time, individual setting for each subscription account (life-time memberships also supported)
- Administrator can assign subscriptions to users in Joomla Users manager
- Flexible discount policy for subscriptions upgrades and renewals, implemented as global component options which can be overridden on per-account level
- Complete list of all active and archived subscriptions and payments in component administration view
- Payment methods implemented as plugins, new methods can be added easily
- Offline (Bank Transfer) and other non-instant payment methods support
- Additional Access checks for articles full text (after "read more...") plugin and more add-ons
- Email notifications sent to users on subscriptions modifications and to administrator on offline payments
- Cron job for detecting expired subscriptions and email notifications
- Automatic subscriptions scanning and email notifications about subscription expiration sent from cron task (optional)
- Compatible with 3-d party registration and profile managers, e.g. Community Builder and K2
- Overridable email templates, individual for each installed language
- Subscription accounts selector layouts - 3 built-in layouts which can be overridden in template (template overrides)
- English and Russian supported right out of the box, more language translations can be added easily

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Smart Countdown Bridge for JEvents

Paid download |
Extensions Specific Non-sorted |
Alex Polonski

3

Score:

70

1 review

This plugin requires that JEvents component is installed and configured. At least one instance of JEvents Latest module must be enabled.
Adds automatic events import from JEvents Latest module to Smart Countdown 3 or later.
Main features:
- automatic countdown events change based on JEvents dates, times and event duration
- select JEvents Latest module instance to pull events from
- JEvents module display is not required (it can be hidden, e.g. published to "none" position or set to be displayed on "no pages")
- countdown/count up modes and events switch trigger is configurable:
1. Countdown only
2. Count up only
3. Auto - count up during event progress, countdown to the next event afterwards
4. Fixed mode time from/before the event
- support for overlapping and recurring events
- independent configuration for each Smart Countdown instance
- JEvents events title display modes: before text, after text, none
- JEvents event title can act as a link to event details view in native Jevents (if configured so in module's settings)
- Automatic redirection to event details view on event start (countdown zero), if configured so in module's settings

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Fake Random Count Up

Paid download |
Fake data |
Alex Polonski

3

Score:

0

0 reviews

Random Count is a module that shows a fictitious but yet highly credible counter on Joomla 3 sites. The module configuration supports pseudo-random increasing or descreasing patterns of up to 32 elements, each element holding the delay (in seconds.miliseconds) before next increment and the increment value (delta). Each module instance can be configured individually even if displayed on the same page.
The counter values are always consistent, doesn't matter when you open the page or resume your computer / handheld from suspend state - the counter will show same values on all computers, as if they were requested from server.
Minimum and maximum counter values can optionally be set. Even if minimum value is not set, counter will never display negative values.
Counter markup can be customized via module options. A currency symbol can be prepended/appended to the counter. The counter can be also embedded into custom HTML.

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Smart Subscriptions "Read more"

Free |
Membership & Subscriptions |
Alex Polonski

3

Score:

0

0 reviews

Plugins package for Smart Subscriptions adds additional view level check for Joomla articles full text (text after "Read more..."). If current user subscription is not compatible, user will be redirected to registration or profile view where he can upgrade his subscription.

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Google Calendar Bridge for Smart Countdown

Paid download |
Extension Specific |
Alex Polonski

3

Score:

0

0 reviews

Google Calendar import plugin provides support for Google Calendars in Smart Countdown 3. It pulls events from selected Google calendar and adds them to Smart Countdown events queue so that countdown/count up is switched automatically to the next event in queue. Not compatible with Smart Countdown 2.5!
Main features:
Full support for recurring and all day events
Filter events by color (optional)
Calendar import settings individually configured for each Smart Countdown module instance
Supports both Public API Key and OAuth authentication
Full time zones support (events in the calendar can be located in different time zones)
Link event title to event details view on Google calendar page (optional)